In the
first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel
had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed:
then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the
matters.
02 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by
night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven
strove upon the great sea.
03 And four great beasts came up from the sea,
diverse one from another.
04 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's
wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were
plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and
made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's
heart was given to it.
05 And behold another beast, a second, like to a
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it
had three ribs in the mouth of it between the
teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise,
devour much flesh.
06 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a
leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings
of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and
dominion was given to it.
07 After this I saw in the night visions, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth:
it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the
residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse
from all the beasts that were before it; and it
had ten horns.
08 I considered the horns, and, behold, there
came up among them another little horn, before
whom there were three of the first horns plucked
up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were
eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking
great things.
09 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and
the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was
white as snow, and the hair of his head like the
pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame,
and his wheels as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from
before him: thousand thousands ministered unto
him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood
before him: the judgment was set, and the books
were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the
great words which the horn spake: I beheld even
till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed,
and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had
their dominion taken away: yet their lives were
prolonged for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one
like the Son of man came with the clouds of
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory,
and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and
languages, should serve him: his dominion is an
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.
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15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst
of my body, and the visions of my head troubled
me.
16 I came near unto one of them that stood by,
and asked him the truth of all this. So he told
me, and made me know the interpretation of the
things.
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four
kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even
for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth
beast, which was diverse from all the others,
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and
his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in
pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head,
and of the other which came up, and before whom
three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and
a mouth that spake very great things, whose look
was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the
saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment
was given to the saints of the most High; and the
time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse
from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in
pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten
kings that shall arise: and another shall rise
after them; and he shall be diverse from the
first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the
most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
most High, and think to change times and laws:
and they shall be given into his hand until a
time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall
take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy
it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,
shall be given to the people of the saints of the
most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey
him.
28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me
Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my
countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter
in my heart.
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